â
The moon has moonquakes.â
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.â
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.â
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.â
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.â
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.â
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.â
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.â
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.â
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.â
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.â
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.â
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.â
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.â
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.â
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.â
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.â
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.â
A snail can sleep for three years straight.â
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.â
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.â
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.â
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.â
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.â
Ostriches can run faster than horses.â
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.â
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.â
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.â
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.â
Dolphins have names for each other.â
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.â
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.â
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.â
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.â
Bees can recognize individual human faces.â
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.â
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.â
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.â
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.â
Sloths only poop about once a week.â
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.â
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.â
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.â
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.â
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.â
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.â
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.â
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.â
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.â
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.â
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.â
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.â
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.â
A flock of crows is known as a murder.â
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.â
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.â
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.â
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.â
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.â
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.â
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.â
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.â
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.â
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.â
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.â
The first computer mouse was made of wood.â
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.â
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.â
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.â
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.â
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.â
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.â
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.â
Octopuses can taste with their arms.â
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.â
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.â
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.â
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.â
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.â
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.â
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.â
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.â
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.â
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.â
Rats laugh when tickled.â
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.â
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.â
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.â
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.â
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.â
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.â
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.â
A mosquito has 47 teeth.â
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.â
A group of owls is called a parliament.â
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.â
Horses physically cannot vomit.â
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.â
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.â
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.â
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.â
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.â
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.â
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.â
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.â
A hippo's sweat is pink.â
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.â
A group of ferrets is called a business.â
Cats can't taste sweetness.â
Goldfish can recognize human faces.â
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.â
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.â
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.â
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.â
Humans are the only animals that blush.â
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.â
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.â
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.â
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.â
A group of frogs is called an army.â
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.â
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.â
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.â
An octopus has nine brains.â
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.â
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.â
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.â
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.â
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.â
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.â
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.â
Pineapples take about two years to grow.â
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.â
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.â
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.â
Butterflies taste with their feet.
â
The moon has moonquakes.â
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.â
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.â
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.â
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.â
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.â
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.â
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.â
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.â
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.â
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.â
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.â
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.â
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.â
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.â
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.â
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.â
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.â
A snail can sleep for three years straight.â
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.â
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.â
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.â
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.â
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.â
Ostriches can run faster than horses.â
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.â
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.â
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.â
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.â
Dolphins have names for each other.â
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.â
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.â
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.â
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.â
Bees can recognize individual human faces.â
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.â
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.â
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.â
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.â
Sloths only poop about once a week.â
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.â
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.â
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.â
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.â
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.â
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.â
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.â
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.â
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.â
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.â
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.â
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.â
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.â
A flock of crows is known as a murder.â
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.â
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.â
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.â
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.â
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.â
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.â
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.â
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.â
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.â
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.â
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.â
The first computer mouse was made of wood.â
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.â
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.â
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.â
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.â
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.â
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.â
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.â
Octopuses can taste with their arms.â
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.â
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.â
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.â
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.â
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.â
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.â
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.â
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.â
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.â
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.â
Rats laugh when tickled.â
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.â
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.â
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.â
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.â
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.â
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.â
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.â
A mosquito has 47 teeth.â
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.â
A group of owls is called a parliament.â
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.â
Horses physically cannot vomit.â
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.â
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.â
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.â
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.â
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.â
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.â
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.â
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.â
A hippo's sweat is pink.â
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.â
A group of ferrets is called a business.â
Cats can't taste sweetness.â
Goldfish can recognize human faces.â
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.â
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.â
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.â
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.â
Humans are the only animals that blush.â
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.â
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.â
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.â
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.â
A group of frogs is called an army.â
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.â
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.â
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.â
An octopus has nine brains.â
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.â
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.â
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.â
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.â
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.â
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.â
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.â
Pineapples take about two years to grow.â
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.â
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.â
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.â
Butterflies taste with their feet.